Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Root Beer Bundt

It's Day #11 of I Like Big Bundts...the Food Librarian's quest to present 30 bundts in 30 days! Did you know that November 15th is National Bundt Day? I cannot lie...I like Big Bundts and encourage you to make a Bundt on November 15th...or anytime!

When I fly, I always get Ginger Ale on the plane. I think it makes me feel grown up.

When I'm in front of a vending machine and they have Squirt, my quarters quickly get thrown into the machine. That citrus goodness is one of my favorites.

But, if they have root beer, I'm there.

This Root Beer Bundt is from the Baked cookbook (original cookbook). It has been made a lot (just google it) and it is worth making. The cake is soft and moist, and the frosting is smooth and yummy.

Thanks to my friend JustJenn for making this logo and for her support! ;)

The frosting is easy to throw together - you mix it in the your food processor. I don't like frosting (I know some of you are horrified by this :) so I only made 1/2 the frosting. It is mainly because I was running low on cocoa powder, but I think 1/2 the frosting was enough. But don't listen to me, I would have eaten it plain.

The root beer flavor is pretty subtle. There is more chocolate flavor. I wish I had added some root beer extract to boost up the flavor a bit.

Make it a Root Beer Bundt Float by serving this with a scoop of vanilla ice cream!

See you back here tomorrow for (hopefully) another Bundt! (I'm flying back to Los Angeles on Wednesday, and hope my little plane isn't delayed or anything.) - mary the food librarian

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Your ginger ale comment, me too! I always, always get it. I think it not only makes me feel like a big girl, but I think it is the right thing for my tummy. LOL!! My five year old loves Root "BEARD". He would love this cake.

I've been lurking from afar, but wanted to post. I read your blog first thing in the AM - which does NOT lend itself well to an empty stomach :-)

I'm making JustJenn's Maple Pumpkin bundt to bring to my MIL's house for Thanksgiving...but I'm really liking the idea of the root beer bundt. (Did you do this one for JustJenn to make up for the banana-aversion one the day before? LOL)

Also - what do you do with all of these bundts? Eat them? Freeze them? Give them away with pieces missing after you lovingly photograph them for posterity?

Thanks for the inspirations. I will resume my passive appreciation of your work :-)

This is such a good recipe! I actually had already found and made this recipe from another source before I saw it here. Just posted today on my blog though. I halved the recipe and made a mini bundt- SO GOOD!

So - after reading your bundt post today 11/14/12 and seeing the root beer bundt photo - I click over here for the recipe and see that I commented two years ago that I wanted to make this recipe! Geez - I think that's all I needed to see :-) I've found my bundt recipe!